Pipeline and utility location.

WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0336

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0076

Pipeline and utility location.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Hawks and Representative(s) Lockhart

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to highways; providing for locating pipelines and utilities in highway rights-of-way; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

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103 are created to read:

CHAPTER 16
Pipelines and Utilities Location

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101.

Short title.

This chapter may be cited as the "Pipeline and Utility Location Act".

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102.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this chapter:

(i)

"Communications facilities" means telephone, telegraph, fiber optics, cable, television, fire alarm or signal, telemetry circuits and any other lines for the purpose of sending and receiving signals and communications;

(ii)

"Pipelines or lines" means transmission pipelines, whether interstate or intrastate, gathering and distribution pipelines, communications facilities and power facilities;

(iii)

"Power facilities" means transmission and distribution lines for electric current, associated equipment and facilities.

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103.

Location of pipelines and utilities.

(a)

The transportation commission may allow parallel pipeline or line encroachments within the highway right-of-way.

(b)

When parallel encroachment is allowed, the line shall be located as close to the highway right-of-way line and as far from the highway centerline as possible.

(c)

Pipelines or lines crossing a highway right-of-way shall be as perpendicular to the roadway centerline as practical.

(d)

Support facilities for pipelines, including storage tanks, valves, clean-out traps, compressors, cathodic protection fields, rectifiers and similar facilities shall be located off the highway right-of-way whenever possible.

(e)

Pressure regulators, whether in huts or vaults, metering equipment, hydrants and service line shut-off valves shall be located off the highway right-of-way whenever possible.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2005.

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